Pro S. Roscio Amerino

8 CICERO
cioiis—a mere couutry geutleman, aucl uukuowu at Rome
could easily be got out of tlie way. For this object tliey
promised their help. Not to keep you too loug, geutlemen,
a couspiracy was coucocted
21. Although at this time not a word was being uttered
about proscription, although eveu those who had feared it
before were uow returuiug aud becomiug couvinced that
they had at last got through their perils, the uame of
Sextus EiOscius was put upou the list, the property of a
most energetic supporter of the aristocratic party was
sold ; Chrysogouus became the purchaser ; three estates,
perhaps the best-kuowu amoug them, were hauded over
to Capito for his owu, aud he is in possession of them
to-day ; Titus Eoscius there, as he himself admits, seized
on all the property in Chrysqgonus' name.
I am perfectly certaiu, geutlemeu, that all this took place
without the knowledge of Lucius Sulla ; (22) aud since he
is at once repairing the evils of the past and providing
for the probable exigencies of the future, siuce he alone
holds iu his hand the plaus for establishiug the peace and
the power of maldng war, since the world looks up to oue
man aud one mau sways the whole, since he is so distracted
with countless importaut affairs that he canuot
breathe freely—we must uot be surprised if there is somethiug
that he fails to notice, particularly as so many persous
are lookiug out for the times when he is engrossed, aud
watchiug for au opportuuity for some plot of this sort, as
soon as his glance is turned aside. Moreover, although he
is fortunate, as iudeed he is, yet no one can live iu the
midst of such good fortune without having in a large
household a single bad slave or freedman.
23. lu the meantime this excellent Titus Eoscius, Chrysogonus'
ageut, arrived at Ameria ; he seized my clienfs
estates ; and though my client was iu distress aud overwhelmed
with grief, and had not yet even performed all
the due rites for his father's burial, he drove him from his
house in destitution, and cast him headloug, geutlemeu,
from the hearth and home of his fathers aud his fatliers'
gods, while he himself became the possessor of this splendid
property. As geucrally liappeus, he sliowed as much arro-